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Milikapiti is a village on the northern coast of Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia. At the 2006 census, Milikapiti had a population of 382. It is by air from Darwin. Fly Tiwi fly twice daily to and from Darwin servicing Milikapiti. The flight takes approximately 25 minutes. The day-to-day management of the Milikapiti community is the responsibility of the Tiwi Islands Regional Council. ==History== Milikapiti was founded in the 1941 as the Snake Bay government aboriginal settlement.〔http://site.jilamara.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=45〕 In 1942, aborigines from Snake Bay captured Australia's first Japanese prisoner of war, Sergeant Hajime Toyoshima, who crash-landed on Melville Island after his plane was damaged while bombing Darwin.〔(1944 Cowra POW bugle ), NSW Migration Heritage Exhibition.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Milikapiti, Northern Territory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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